Seven Basic Steps of a Risk Assessment

Conducting risk assessments is an integral part of an organization’s cybersecurity efforts. The first steps are to identify threats, characterize your existing systems and determine their inherent risks and impact to your organization. Next, organizations need to analyze their control environment, calculate a risk rating and implement strategies to reduce the threats.

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